IT has been a while since I reviewed something so I thought I would do it again, except this time come back in style and review something totally different.
It may be common knowledge that I am a massive Lush nerd. For all you smelly people, Lush is a cosmetic company, but they specialise in bath bombs, bath ballistics, shampoo, gels etc anything to make you smell nice and get clean. The really special and outstanding thing about Lush is their stand on the environment. They create innovative solid shampoo bars, and conditioners, jelly shower gels and solid massage bars as opposed to packaging oils in plastic bottles. (even their little knot wraps are made from recyclable bottles! Pretty cool). Basically anything that has the ability to remove the liquid, they make into solid form, so there is less strain on the environment for packaging the materials as well as recycling them.
So when I first found out they were creating a SOLID TOOTHPASTE – called Toothy Tabs, I was really excited. Their other solid products – the shampoos, conditioners and massage bars (which I have tried in the past) were all very impressive at doing exactly the same thing as their other bottled counterparts, and possibly exceeding them! The flavour I tried was part of the “Dirty” range – a bit ironic since I was getting my teeth nice and clean.
Toothy Tabs are a solid toothpaste, sold in a little cardboard box (makes wonders for small travel bags or even hand bags). Each box has 40 small circular tabs, almost like the shape of those fizzer lollies (but don’t eat the toothpaste!). At first after opening the little packet I was a bit apprehensive, thinking that the taste won’t be spearminty enough or that it wouldn’t foam properly (two things that I look for in toothpaste – as well as leaving my teeth feeling smooth and awesome).
Lush Dirty Toothy Tabs
I placed the toothy tab between my front teeth and nibbled and broke it down; that was the weirdest feeling ever. It kind of had the consistency of eating clay (or what I imagine it to be like), when you chew through it, it breaks up and some of it falls out out your mouth or dissolves. And you have to munch to break it up, then wet your toothbrush and proceed to brush as normal.
I have to say the foaming up factor is pretty good, even after spitting out the first round of foam, I scrubbed a second time and it still foamed up. After the brushing my teeth felt extremely clean, which I was a bit surprised about, because the spear mint taste wasn’t as strong as Colgate, but that doesn’t mean my breath still smelt- to me. After using the Toothy tabs my mouth felt fresher and my teeth are feeling squeaky clean.
The product is extremely cool and unique; perfect for those who are travelling light and those who don’t want to carry around toothpaste and squeeze it til it’s paper thin. And at only $3.95 it is pretty good value for yourself and the environment! Go Lush!
